Chris Yates

Chris Yates is a Database Administration Manager with over thirteen years of experience in the SQL industry. His experience includes design and implementation of both OLTP and OLAP solutions as well as assessment and implementation of SQL Server environments for best practices, performance, and high availability solutions accompanied by a strong development background. He enjoys helping others in the SQL Server community and does this by contributing on several SQL forums, creating “The SQL Professor”, and speaking at several SQL functions. His passion and focus is not only with technology but also helping others along their way and career path.

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The Hidden Cost of MAXDOP: CPU Spikes, Query Slowdowns, and What We Learned

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The Hidden Cost of MAXDOP: CPU Spikes, Query Slowdowns, and What We Learned

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Using Heaps

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Using Heaps

When does Microsoft recommend using a heap as a table structure (no clustered index)?

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